I've been online (except for one week where the 'net was shot to hell), just preoccupied elsewhere.  Work has kept me busy since the start of May; I'm enjoying it, but into that goes a lot of the time that I used to spend elsewhere ( Read more... )

Coming from a multimedia background, I've always struggled to convey what I see as the pre-eminent importance of interfaces to people in the games industry, or even just gamers in general.  Some know what I mean, others think I'm focusing on the wrong thing.

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I found this article interesting, not because of the PS Move stuff, but because of what ( Read more... )

A re-post from gamerDNA.

( Originally posted on 1 Oct 2008. )

Work Christmas/farewell party was last night.  I've never been a hugely social person, so I'm glad they restricted the merrymaking to one area of the office, such that I was able to come and go and take a bit of a breather sometimes, but it was a lot more fun than I expected ... which, really, just hammered in the fact that I'm going to miss these ( Read more... )

( Cross-posted from Facebook again. )

( Cross-posted from Facebook, just because they're too funny to forget. )

I catch a brief reflection
Of what you could and might have been

Best random quote from yesterday:

"HOLY CRAP! IT'S FULL OF METROIDS!" -- Jeremy, in reference to the ocean recently. Apparently they look just like Metroids. I wouldn't know, personally, but let's compare...


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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Anonymous
I spent a lot of time today being thankful for the friends in my life. I don't have many, but those that are still around are unutterably precious to me. They've stuck around through some of the worst times in my life; they've opened me up to new experiences, thoughts, and ( Read more... )

I realised today - well, okay, today is not the first time I've realised it, but whatever, it's been on my mind for the last two hours - that I have pretty high expectations of myself, my friends, and life. This tends to lead to being disappointed often. I've been hoping for things to happen when they're either extremely unlikely to happen or just ( Read more... )